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British citizen and hacker Lauri Love, who was accused of hacking into United States government websites, will not be extradited to stand trial in the U.S., the High Court of England and Wales ruled today.

Love, 33, is facing a 99-year prison sentence in the United States for allegedly carrying out series of cyber attacks against the FBI, US Army, US Missile Defence Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and New York's Federal Reserve Bank between 2012 and 2013.

The High Court ruled Monday that Love should be tried in U.K. after Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett of Maldon and Justice Ouseley heard he suffered severe mental illness like Asperger syndrome, eczema, asthma, and depression, and may kill himself if extradited.

At Westminster Magistrates' Court in London in late 2016, District Judge Nina Tempia ordered Love to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, although his lawyers appealed the decision, arguing that he should be tried for his alleged crimes in the UK.

The court accepted both of the arguments advanced by Love's lawyers and ruled that extradition would be "oppressive" due to his serious health conditions and it would be likely that he would be kept in solitary confinement in the American prison system if extradited.

The court burst in applause and cheering when the judgment was handed down by Lord Burnett, who asked Love supporters to be quiet, saying "This is a court, not a theatre."

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which acts on behalf of the US authorities, said it would read the judgment before deciding whether to appeal the high court decision to the supreme court.

According to US Prosecutors, Love was allegedly involved in #OpLastResort, an online protest linked with the Anonymous collective following the persecution and untimely death of hacktivist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013 while under federal charges for data theft.

Love, who lives near Newmarket, was arrested from his home in Stradishall, England in October 2013, when the British police seized his encrypted laptops and hard drives.

If extradited to the United States and found guilty, Love could have sentenced to up to 99 years in prison and a potential fine of up to $9 million (£6.3 million).

Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Love expressed his thanks to the judges and said: "I'm thankful for all the support we've had, without which I'm not sure I would have made it this far."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is also fighting US extradition, congratulate Love in a Tweet, saying: "VICTORY: @LauriLove wins UK appeal against US extradition. Congratulations to Lauri, his lawyers & family, @CourageFound and many supporters on an excellent campaign."

Right now, it is not clear if Love, who denies all wrongdoings, would face a prison sentence in the UK following his five years of legal battle.

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the Czech police in Prague last October on suspicion of massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, can be extradited to either the United States or Russia, a Czech court ruled on Tuesday.

Nikulin was arrested in Prague on October 5 by the Czech police after Interpol issued an international arrest warrant against him.

Nikulin appeared at a court hearing held inside a high-security prison in Prague on Tuesday and emaciated after eight months in solitary confinement.

The court ruling, pending appeals, left the final decision in the hands of Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikan, who can approve extradition to one of the countries and block the other.

The United States has requested Nikulin extradition for carrying out hacking attacks and stealing information from several American social networking companies, including LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, between March 2012 to July 2012.

However, Russia, where Nikulin is facing a lesser charge, has requested his extradition on a separate cyber theft charge of stealing $3,450 via the Internet in 2009.

"Both [case] documents are very, very sufficient for reasonable suspicion that [the offenses] took place and that there is a reason to press charges," the judge said.

Hacker Claims FBI Pressured Him to Confess to US Election Hacks

Nikulin's arrest last October came three days before the United States officially accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

Nikulin's lawyer says the case is a set-up, indicating that his arrest may have deeper inclinations than over the cyber attacks against American firms.

The Guardian reported Nikulin was interrogated in Prague, where he currently remains imprisoned, by FBI special agent Jeffrey Miller.

Nikulin wrote in a letter from prison that during his interrogation, Miller reportedly brought up the US election hacking and claimed that the FBI agent pressured him to admit to the DNC hack and promised him good treatment if he accepted to cooperate.

Nikulin wrote in the letter that he rejected the offer. His lawyer indicated that Nikulin was not a hacker, but just a victim of an FBI plot.

"Do you really imagine that a high-ranking FBI agent is going to travel all the way from San Francisco just to read this guy his rights?," Nikulin lawyer said.

Mark Galeotti, a senior security researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, also showed his concern about an FBI agent traveling to another country to extradite a hacker.

"An FBI agent traveling from the US to a third country as part of an extradition request is extremely unusual and highlights that the case is seen as significant," Galeotti said, as quoted by the Guardian.

Nikulin's Russian lawyer stated that his client's life revolved around buying and selling luxury cars, adding that Nikulin was "useless with computers" and capable of checking his email and no more and, far from being a super-hacker who can hack big firms.

Tuesday's court hearing was held in a tiny room inside the prison for security reasons, to which Nikulin’s Czech lawyer said: "In all my 25 years as a lawyer, I don’t remember any cases being tried inside the prison, including serial killers or organized crime cases."

Now, the final decision is in the hands of the Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikan, who is slated to decide where Nikulin will be extradited: The United States, where he can face a "disproportionately harsh" sentence of 54 years behind bars, or Russia, where he faces a lesser charge of cyber theft.

British citizen and alleged hacker Lauri Love will be extradited to the United States to face allegations of hacking into United States government computer systems, a UK judge ruled on Friday.

Love, 31, is currently facing up to 99 years in prison for allegedly hacking into the FBI, the US Army, the US Missile Defence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and New York's Federal Reserve Bank during 2012 and 2013.

US Prosecutors claim that Love was allegedly involved in #OpLastResort, an online protest linked with the Anonymous collective following the persecution and untimely death of activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013 while under federal charges for data theft.

Speaking at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, District Judge Nina Tempia said: "I'll be extraditing Mr. Love, by which I mean I'll be passing the case to the Secretary of State."

Tempia said Love could appeal against the court decision. The case will be referred to the home secretary Amber Rudd while Love remains on bail.

Love, his lawyer, and his family members have expressed concern about Love's well-being in the US, saying they fear for his life due to his mental health issues. Love is suffering from Asperger's syndrome.

"I accept Mr. Love suffers from both physical and mental health issues, but I have found the medical facilities in the United States prison estate … are such that I can be satisfied his needs will be comprehensively met by the U.S. authorities," Tempia said in her decision.

Friday's ruling came a few months after Love won a case against Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), which was demanding him disclose passwords to his encrypted computers.

The mother of another British hacker Gary McKinnon, who was accused in 2002 of breaking into NASA and Pentagon computer systems and also avoided extradition to the US on mental health issues, warned Love wouldn't survive life in the US prison.

If his appeal to the home secretary against Friday's ruling proves unsuccessful, Love would have 14 days to file an appeal in the High Court for permission to challenge both the judge as well as the home secretary's decision.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) of United Kingdom is forcing the British citizen, and political hacktivist Lauri Love accused of hacking to hand over encryption keys to equipment seized from his home.

Love, 31, is currently fighting extradition to the United States where he faces up to 99 years in prison for allegedly hacking into the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), the US Missile Defence Agency, NASA and Federal Reserve Bank of New York during 2012 and 2013.

US Prosecutors claim that Love was allegedly involved in #OpLastResort, an online protest linked with the Anonymous group, following the persecution and untimely death of activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013 while under federal charges for data theft.

Love was initially arrested from his home in Stradishall, England in October 2013 by the NCA and had criminal charges filed against him in New York, East Virginia, and New Jersey.

During a court hearing at Westminster Magistrates on Tuesday, the NCA representatives asked the District Judge to order Love to disclose the passwords to his encrypted computer files.

In an effort to obtain data from the seized computers, the agency previously attempted to compel Love to hand over his encryption keys and passwords under Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) 2000, but was failed after his refusal.

The Ripa order expired with no further consequences to Love.

The latest attempt to force Love to hand over his encryption keys and passwords came after Love, who is on bail, launched a legal action against the agency to force it to return his computer equipment.

After hearing, Love said NCA was holding his "property to ransom," adding "It is not just the devices that cost money, and I do not have a lot of money, but it is everything I have ever made – writings, photos, correspondence, software, memories of an inestimable personal sentimental value."

Now, instead of using powers introduced with the Ripa, the NCA is seeking a court order in the form of a 'direction' in the civil proceeding brought by Love. If the direction is granted and Love refuses to comply, he will be charged with contempt of court.

The NCA has also asked the court to order Love to provide witness statements informing the court whether 2 TrueCrypt encrypted files on his computer contain data from the US Senate and the Department of Energy.

The court hearing for Love's extradition to the US is due to be held on 28 and 29 June.

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Marcel Lazar Lehel aka "Guccifer" – an infamous Romanian hacker who hacked into the emails and social networking accounts of numerous high profile the US and Romanian Politicians – appeared in the United States court for the first time after extradition.

Following Romania's top court approval last month, Guccifer was extradited to the United States recently from Romania, his home country, where he had already been serving a hacking sentence.

Lehel has been charged with cyber-stalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft in a nine-count indictment filed in 2014 in a federal district court in Alexandria, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

Lehel "hacked into the email and social media accounts of high-profile victims, including a family member of two former U.S. presidents, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former presidential advisor," according to the indictment.

The international black hat hacker came to the limelight after allegedly accessing personal emails and photos belonging to the family of former US President George W. Bush and posting unofficial emails sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Internet.

The same hacker brought the extramarital romantic relationship between former US Secretary Colin Powell and Romanian Diplomat Corina Cretu by hijacking Colin’s AOL email Account and circulating his 'very personal emails.'

Possible Sentence of 20 years in Prison

Lehel has been charged with a total of 9 counts of US-Federal indictments, which includes:

Three counts for Wire Fraud

Three counts of gaining unauthorized access to protected computers

One counts of cyber stalking

One count of aggravated identity theft

One count of obstruction of justice

Though the total sentence is not confirmed, the charges Guccifer faces collectively carry with them a possible sentence of maximum 20 years in prison, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maya Song said in court Friday.

If you want to explore more about the Guccifer Hacks or Leaks, you may visit the website named 'The Smoking Gun' to which he published the leaked contents (don't expect a Wikileaks model).

Guccifer was sentenced for intrusion charges to popular profiles by the Romanian court to four years in jail in 2014 "with the aim of getting ... confidential data" and is serving another three-year term for other offenses.

Guccifer kickstarted his career as a Hacker at the age of 35. Interestingly, a documentary had been prepared by the Norton Groups on Guccifer, which details his hacking career.

Upon the request of US authorities, Marcel Lazar Lehel, well known as Guccifer, has finally been approved to extradite to the United States to face Computer Intrusion and Identity Theft Charges for 18 months.

Guccifer is an infamous Romanian hacker who was arrested in Romania for hacking into the emails and social networking accounts of numerous high profile the US and Romanian Politicians.

Romania's top court has approved a request by US authorities to extradite Guccifer to the United States, a source within Romania's DIICOT anti-organized crime and terrorism unit told Reuters.

Guccifer's well known political targets included:

Bill Clinton (Former President)

Hillary Clinton (U.S Presidential Candidate)

George W. Bush (Former U.S. President)

Colin Powell (former U.S. Secretary)

George Maior (chief of the Romanian Intelligence Service)

John Tenet (State Director of Central Intelligence for the United States CIA)

Richard Armitage (Republican politician)

Lisa Murkowski (U.S. Senator and former Secret Service Agent) and many more.

The same hacker was responsible to crack into the AOL Account of Bush’s Sister, Dorothy Bush Koch and targeted a number of high-profile celebrities, including Nicole Kidman, Comedian Steve Martin, Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Actress Mariel Hemingway, 'Sex and the City' author Candace Bushnell, Biographer Kitty Kelley, released some of Hillary Clinton's private emails and many more.

The 42-year-old hacker had also claimed that Bush was a member of Ku Klux Klan – a White Supremacist Racist group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, allegedly having total 5,000 to 8,000 members.

This intensified leakage had caused many repercussions on many topics like the romantic relationships between Colin Powell and Corina Cretu (Romanian Politician), even though both denied the statement.

If you want to explore more about the Guccifer Leaks, you may visit the site named 'The Smoking Gun' to which he published the leaked contents (don't expect a Wikileaks model).

Guccifer was serving as a Taxi Driver when Romania's DIICOT anti-organized crime and terrorism unit arrested him. He kickstarted his career as a Hacker at the age of 35.

According to his wife, Guccifer did most of his hacking from the quiet Sâmbăteni, which is located in the Draculan Village Transylvania.

Guccifer was sentenced for intrusion charges to popular profiles by the Romanian court to four years in jail in 2014 "with the aim of getting ... confidential data" and is serving another three-year term for other offences.

A Russian Hacker who was arrested in year 2012 by the authorities of the Netherlands and accused for allegedly hacking into the computer networks of more than a dozen major American corporations and stole over 160 million Credit and Debit Card Numbers.

Earlier we reported, 33-year-old Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman is wanted in U.S and Russia for various cyber crime charges, and the Netherlands Court ruled simultaneous requests from the U.S. & Russia for the extradition were admissible. But now it’s up to the Dutch Minister of Justice to decide, whether to which country he would be extradited.

However, Hacker Vladimir Drinkman does not want to face charges in US and appealed to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, Country's highest court, to avoid his extradition to the US, Bloomberg reported.

In the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. prosecutor plead that he was involved in the theft of more than 160 million credit and debit-card numbers by hacking 17 United States based retailers, financial institutions and payment processors, and then he sold it to Credit Card resellers, who then sold it through online forums or to individuals and criminal organizations.

Along with Vladimir Drinkman, three other Russians (Roman Kotov, Dmitriy Smilianets, and Alexandr Kalinin) and one 27-year-old Ukrainian Mikhail Rytikov named in the indictment of Biggest U.S Hacking Case.

Group of Hackers identified vulnerabilities in SQL databases and used those vulnerabilities to infiltrate a computer network. Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman was arrested at the request of the U.S Department of Justice while traveling in the Netherlands on June 28, 2012.

Investigators believe that the gang was performing cyber crimes since at least 2007, causing losses of more than $300 million to some of the attacked companies.

Whereas in Russia, he is accused of cyber crime fraud and even they filed a request for extradition over a year after US authorities.

According to Dutch law, a person has to file the reasons for an appeal at least a day before the hearing, otherwise the appeal isn't heard. Now a hearing date will be set soon, a spokeswoman at the court said.

Anyways, it seems that the Russian hacker will face several years in prison. Stay Tuned for more information.

In the mid of last year a Group of Russian Hackers were accused for allegedly infiltrating the computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card and debit card numbers over the course of seven years, which were then resold to third parties buyers.

WANTED IN U.S AND RUSSIA

A Rotterdam court in Netherlands ruled that simultaneous requests from the U.S. and Russia for the extradition of the Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman were admissible, who is accused of being involved to lead the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S history, Bloomberg report.

But it’s not yet clear why Russia demands Drinkman’s extradition, "It’s now up to the minister of justice to decide on the extradition, and to decide which country." court ruled.

The investigators identified that the defendants have been infiltrating computer networks across the globe since at least 2007, including firms in New Jersey, where the first breach was detected. The group would then allegedly install “sniffers” within the networks to automatically obtain electronic data from tens of thousands of credit cards. And after stealing data, they sold it to resellers, who then sold it through online forums or to individuals and organizations.

GROUP OF FIVE BEHIND THE U.S's BIGGEST HACKING CASE

The group of hackers involved four Russian hackers Vladimir Drinkman, Aleksander Kalinin, Roman Kotov and Dmitriy Smilianets, and one Ukrainian Mikhail Rytikov.

According to the officials, it is estimated that the attack on the global payment system resulted in the theft of more than 950,000 cards and losses of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is probably the biggest hacker attack in the US history, said the prosecutors.

Drinkman and Smilianets are charged with taking part in a computer hacking conspiracy and conspiracy to commit wire fraud with three other men, Aleksandr Kalinin, Roman Kotov and Mikhail Rytikov. All the four Russians are also charged with multiple counts of unauthorized computer access and wire fraud.

Drinkman, the subject of an extradition hearing was helping to lead the attack and was one of five people accused of hacking 17 retailers, financial institutions and payment processors, including 7-Eleven Inc., Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. , Carrefour SA and J.C. Penney Co., to steal more than 160 million credit- and debit-card numbers, the report stated.

The other man Smilianets was involved in personal identifying the information such as usernames and passwords, personal identification, and credit and debit card numbers, and personal ID information of cardholders. He then sold that information to resellers, the U.S. said.

Smilyants and Drinkman were arrested by the authorities of the Netherlands in 2012, from those Smilyants was extradited weeks later to the U.S., where he declared a not-guilty plea and has been in U.S. custody since.

Farid Essebar, went by the online screen name "Diabl0", has been wanted from last three years, and finally arrested on Tuesday with the joint operation of Thai and Swiss authorities and will be extradited to Switzerland soon.

In 2011, He allegedly duplicated the Bank website pages to dupe more than 1,000 people and responsible for damage of $4 Billion and subject to an 'International' arrest warrant for forgery and piracy of financial institutions.

''We arrested the suspect at a condominium on Rama IV Road. Next Thailand will send him to Switzerland within 90 days in accordance with the extradition agreement,'' Police Colonel Songsak Raksaksakul of the Department of Special Investigation said.

In 2005, 18-year-old Farid Essebar was arrested by Morocco police at the FBI's request and sentenced to two years in prison by the court. He was accused of hacking major Banks, writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm.

His two other cyber gang members are still wanted for Cyber Crime charges and believed to be in Thailand.

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He was living in Cambodia last year but was later arrested and deported to Sweden. Currently he is serving a one-year sentence in Sweden for hacking into the computer systems of contractors working for the national tax authority. His extradition will take place on 27th November.Along with a 20-year-old Dane, they are accused of hacking into the servers of a Denmark government contractor and stealing police files files between April and August 2012.

The motivation for the hacks remains unknown, but the police say it can’t be ruled out that changes were made to the records. There are, however, no indications that any of the downloaded files have been exploited.

Even, The Pirate Bay may no longer be safe to use. It is no longer in the hands of the original owners. An Anonymous activist tweeted last week, "The Pirate Bay is now a rogue torrent site. Tell your friends to stop using it." and following screenshot of the chat conversation between him and another Cofounder of Pirate Bay - Peter Sunde.

Previously Gottfrid has appealed to the Swedish government to stop his extradition, arguing that he had not actually carried it out any hacking attack and Danish hacker attack may have been traced to his computer.

That was not the first time he had maintained his innocence on hacking charges, saying somebody else had used his computer remotely. He was also convicted of hacking into the Nordea bank, but because it was not practically possible to prove that he had illegally gained access to Nordea's mainframe, so court cut his prison sentence to one year only.

This time, If convicted in Denmark, Svartholm Warg could face a six-year jail sentence.

Son of a Baptist Minister, 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, NASA and other federal agencies.

He was arrested Friday at his home in Stradishall, England by the National Crime Agency and according to the indictment alleges Love and his unnamed co-conspirators hacked into thousands of computer systems between October 2012 and October 2013. The indictment does not accuse Love of selling information or doing anything else with it for financial gain.

His father Alexander Love, 60, a Baptist minister, works as a chaplain at HMP Highpoint North. His mother Sirkka-Liisa Love, 59, also works at the jail as a teacher.

He is charged with one count of accessing a U.S. Department or agency computer without authorization and one count of conspiracy. The government said the purpose was to disrupt the operations and infrastructure of the federal government. They stole data on more than 5,000 individuals, as well as information on government budgets and procurement processes.

Love is alleged to have used the online monikers "nsh", "route", and "peace" to plot attacks from his home with three unnamed conspirators in Australia and Sweden and US authorities declined to discuss whether they had been arrested or will be arrested and extradited to the US.

"You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," Love told a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... Stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor".

Love could be extradited to the US, where if convicted he faces up to ten years in prison and a fine for twice the damage caused. Gary McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, accused US authorities of targeting young British geeks, said “They are just young geeks sitting in their bedrooms; they’re not murderers, they’re not terrorists, they’re not selling secrets, they’re just searching for information,".

He has been released on bail until February and could face a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced to two years in jail by Nacka district court, Sweden on Thursday for hacking into computers at a company that manages data for Swedish authorities and making illegal online money transfers.

In Sweden, He is also involved in another case, to have hacked the mainframe of the CSC computer company protecting Rigspolitiet’s (the Danish national police) IT system, as well as other sensitive government databases.

In Denmark, Svartholm Warg and another unnamed Danish co-defendant were accused of illegally accessing 4 million files, including the email passwords of 10,000 policemen, personal identification numbers (CPRs) from a driver’s license database and information about wanted persons in the Schengen region.

He had denied the charges, further he can be extradited to Denmark to face charges for one of the country’s largest hacking attacks.

Last year Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was extradited to Sweden from Cambodia to begin a one-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2009 of internet piracy.

Reuters report detailed that, prosecution documents Gottfrid Svartholm Warg managed to transfer 24,200 Danish crowns ($4,300) online, but also attempted, in several different transactions, to transfer a total of around 683,000 euros ($915,500).

Swedish prosecutors also trying to close down Pirate Bay, which provides links to music and movie files stored on other users' computers. The site is now run by an unknown group and uses a domain name registered in Sint Maarten, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean.

He was staying in embassy for the past year to avoid extradition to Sweden. The Australian will be arrested if he steps outside the building, so the jet-set lifestyle has been replaced by a single room and his laptop.

Assange said he fears Sweden would allow him to be extradited to the United States to face potential charges relating to WikiLeaks releases of sensitive diplomatic and defense communications.

So as of tomorrow, he decided to spent one year inside the embassy, even if sex charges against him are dropped. “The strong view of my US lawyer is that there is already a sealed indictment which means I would be arrested, unless the British Government gave information or guarantees that would grant me safe passage,” he said.

Assange claims that the extradition order is politically motivated and is actually linked to the leaks made by his anti-secrecy website against American and British governments.

"Our government will not hand Mr. Assange over to the UK government nor to anyone else, and we shall continue to stress that Mr. Assange has the right to benefit from asylum," Ecuador's foreign minister says.

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The Algerian hacker linked with the SpyEye computer virus, designed to steal financial and personal information was extradited by Thailand to the United States to face charges that he hijacked customer accounts at more than 200 banks and financial institutions and have been used to steal more than $100 million in the last five years.

A SpyEye allowed cybercriminals to alter the display of Web pages in the victims' browsers as a way to trick them into turning over personal financial information. The virus only impacts PCs and not Macintosh operating systems.

A report issued last year by security firms McAfee said that about a dozen cybercrime groups have been using variants of Zeus and SpyEye, which automate the process of transferring money from bank accounts. The stolen funds are transferred to prepaid debit cards or into accounts controlled by money mules, allowing the mules to withdraw the money and wire it to the attackers.

Hamza Bendelladj, also known as Bx1, faces 23 charges in an indictment (PDF) returned in December 2011 and unsealed Friday. U.S. Attorney Sally Yates said the man was extradited to Atlanta from Thailand on Thursday and was arraigned in federal court Friday afternoon. Wearing a dress shirt and black athletic pants, he smiled frequently and chatted in the courtroom. He said he didn't need an interpreter because he spoke fluent English.

A second person is also charged in the indictment but has not been identified. Investigators could not disclose whether the person was in the U.S. or abroad. Officials also could not disclose what information led them to Bendelladj.

According to court documents, from 2009 to 2011, Bendelladj and others allegedly developed, marketed and sold various versions and components of the SpyEye Trojan. Bendelladj allegedly advertised the malware on cybercrime forums, and operated command and control servers, including one in Atlanta, Georgia.

If convicted, Bendelladj faces up to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, and up to five years for conspiracy to commit computer fraud. The 21 counts of wire and computer fraud carry maximum sentences of between five and 20 years each. The man may also be fined up to $14 million.

Also now Hackers have developed a mobile version of SpyEye called Spitmo, which targets victims' smartphones. Cyber Criminals can steal personal information through victims' computers and forward themselves text messages from the victims' cell phones to fraudulently verify the person's identity and lock them out of bank accounts and other personal accounts.

Gary McKinnon has had his extradition blocked by the UK government. He has finally won his 10-year fight against extradition after Home Secretary Theresa May today halted proceedings on human rights grounds.

The Home Secretary said medical reports warning the computer hacker would kill himself if sent to the US were sufficient grounds to bring the decade-long battle to an end. It is 10 years since he was first arrested, and his case has come to symbolise a purported imbalance in the extradition arrangements between the UK and the US.

McKinnon was accused by US prosecutors of "the biggest military computer hack of all time", but he claims he was simply looking for evidence of UFOs.

According to a report, Mr Burrowes increased the pressure on the Prime Minister last night by telling friends he will resign as a member of the Government if Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is deported.

There was no doubt McKinnon is seriously ill and the extradition warrant against him should be withdrawn. London mayor Boris Johnson said: 'At last, justice and the well-being of Mr McKinnon have prevailed. I have long supported Gary's right to be tried here in the UK.'

McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp thanked Home Secretary May for made a life saving decision for her son. "Thank you Theresa May from the bottom of my heart – I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thing,"

We wish Gary a healthy life ahead and heartiest congratulations on his win.

Gary’s 10 years spent living on a knife-edge has been nothing short of cruel and unnecessary punishment.

There is another new hope for Gary McKinnon who is fighting extradition after being accused of hacking US military computers. Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will win his 10-year legal battle against extradition have been significantly raised after Home Office-appointed psychiatrists warned that he would be very likely to attempt suicide if sent for trial in the US.

It comes as the result of a medical report by two Home Office psychiatrists, which found there is a "significant risk" of suicidal behaviour by Mr McKinnon. The Home Secretary will tell MPs of her final decision on the case on Tuesday.

McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, has called on government figures to honour their promises to save her son. But despite this it remains unclear if the Home Secretary, Theresa May, will halt his extradition or not, having previously put it on hold to consider new evidence.

McKinnon was a talented computer enthusiast who has said he was only interested in proving that the US is covering up information about alien technology. McKinnon, 46, was arrested in March 2002 for allegedly hacking into dozens of Pentagon and Nasa computers over a 13-month period from a bedroom in north London.